[ PHOTO : Grandson of Edmund FLOOD (c1799 - c1845) : John Flood b. 1868 Australia. d. 1907 Australia.]
Grandson John Flood is wearing robes from the Hibernian Australasian Catholic Benefit Society HACBS, St Kilians branch in Bendigo / Sandhurst, Victoria, Australia.
Son, Edmund Flood (b. 1845 Co Galway) emigrated to Australia in 1854 (approx) with his Uncle (Name?). Edmund and his brother Patrick were reunited in Bendigo
(aka Sandhurst, name change) a town in Victoria Australia. It was the time of the Great Famine in Ireland and the Gold Rush in Australia.
typo, should be Edmund Flood.
PHOTO : Flood Coachbuilders Bendigo. 5th from right is John Flood. Little girl is Bridget 'Kitty' Flood 4 years old. Date :circa 1906
Family Tree
The tree is on wikitree, back to the father of the children who emigrated to Australia.
Edmund Flood
Born about 1799 in Ireland. He probably died c 1845, in Ballynakill, County Galway, before his wife and children emigrated to Australia.
Son of [father unknown] and [mother unknown] [sibling(s) unknown]
Husband of Anne (Tully) Flood. They married about 1820 in County Galway, Ireland. Records say their children were born in Woodford and Ballynakil, Co Galway. [Honora Flood was baptised on 20 June 1834 at Woodford, Galway.]
Edmund b. 1799 and Anne (nee TULLY) FLOOD were the parents of : Bridget (Flood) Conroy, Thomas Flood, John Flood, Catherine Anne (Flood) Drechsler, Honora (Flood) Duggan, Peter Flood, Patrick Flood and Edmund Flood
Anne (nee TULLY) FLOOD emigrated to Australia in about 1855 with some of her children after her husband Edmund died in Ireland.
Edmund and Patrick emigrated to Australia first, aged 10 and 17, with an Uncle, probably a TULLY. They settled in Sandhurst / Bendigo.
Thomas, Bridget, Honora emigrated to Australia later. Not sure if John and Peter came to Australia.
A lot of the Floods still live in Bendigo. Some are in other parts of Victoria.
Joseph James Flood (1874 Bendigo - 1944 Perth W.A.) went to the goldfields in Western Australia.
